Re: icon showing that something is banned or nonfunctioning

[John Cornellier <tw -at- cornellier -dot- com>]

There are generic classes of signs, and those classes should have names. On European roads, signs which are round and blue are signs of obligation. Those which are white with a red border are 
signs of restriction. (E.g. a round sign with a red border and nothing in it means "no entry"). The red circle with a diagonal line prohibits whatever is shown with a pictogram-thingy on the sign. In 
France there's a generic term for this which I'd translate as "sign of prohibtion". The thing to do might be to check on a gov't road sign web site in an English-speaking country where they use these 
signs. Australia? UK? South Africa?

So in answer to your question: "sign of prohibtion" - ?

11-Dec-01 11:41:48 PM, Diane Evans <DianeE -at- LOCKSTREAM -dot- com> wrote:
>>How do you describe the icon/symbol showing that something is banned--i.e.,
>a circle with a slash through it (all superimposed over the thing that is




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